216: Aaron Harris (Isis)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Aaron Harris comes from a family of ship builders. Although he broke from tradition to become a drummer, his drumming is finely crafted and architectural, evoking images of a sleek and efficient sea vessel. Aaron tells Joe about: music as an escape; leaving his hometown; working as a bike messenger and at Boston institution, Newbury Comics; co-founding the influential band, Isis; moving to Los Angeles; his parallel career as a composer; and celebrating his impending parenthood.

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0:00.0	I feel really grateful that I can make a living at music, which is becoming harder to do, you know?
0:19.3	This is Joe Wong. Welcome to the Trap Set. I'd like to play something for you.
0:25.6	I'd like to play something for you. You're hearing the beginning and the end by ISIS, featuring my guest, Aaron Harris on drums.
0:54.7	A native of Maine, Harris moved to Boston in the late 90s and soon became an integral
1:00.3	member of the influential New England hardcore scene.
1:05.0	Aaron comes from a long line of shipbuilders, and as a drummer, his attention to detail is
1:09.6	precise and architectural.
1:11.6	His command of the craft evokes images of a hand-built, stylish and sleek sea vessel.
1:18.6	Now based in LA, Aaron is a successful composer for film trailers.
1:23.6	I spoke to him at Trapset H.Q. In downtown Los Angeles.
1:28.3	And now my conversation with Aaron Harris.
1:31.3	My father and my grandfather both were in shipbuilding.
1:48.0	There's like a big shipyard there called B-I-W,
1:51.0	and it's like a lot of contracts for the Navy-Navy-building destroyers and stuff like that.
1:57.0	Tugboats.
1:59.0	And that was like the big, the big employer in my hometown outside of like, you know,
2:07.5	Walmart or the little mom and pop antique stores.
2:12.9	And, you know, you could go to like, you could go to Portland.
2:16.3	You know, you could find jobs in other, you could go to Portland. You know, you could find jobs in other
2:19.3	bigger cities, but my town, that was the main employer, was BIW. How far were you from Portland?
2:27.4	About 45 minutes. Yeah, in 96, the year I graduated high school, I moved to Boston to play music.
2:36.3	And that's where my music career started.
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